| Misfit Forms: Paths Not Taken by the British Novel Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature; Sympathy in literature; Examines the development of norms and divergences in the 18th and 19th century British novel. Focuses on typography, plot structures, modes of communicating affect, and the cultivation of wonder vs. curiosity. Includes discussion of Defoe, Sterne, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Woolf and other writers. Nandrea Lorri G. : Lorri Nandrea is an independent scholar. |